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Show John Wanamaker, Big Capitalist, Would Throw Scare Into Voters Philadelphia, Oct. 28. In a political polit-ical statement John Wanamaker says, In pare "The main points at Issue In the coniinij election are exactly as I stated stat-ed in my letter of October 4 Nothing 1 salt! therein lias been disproved. Neither the contractor nor the merchant mer-chant would put at the head of his own. morcnntllo or railroad business a man, uo matter how scholarly, who never hud an hour's experience In managing for four years the mlllloh of people employed by the government govern-ment and the expenditure of a billion of money annually. "Ideal grievances against the government gov-ernment call for Ideal treatmenL If the malady Is wrong the remedy proposed pro-posed is surely wrong. "So far it seems to many the cry for liberation is but a howl for 'power. 'pow-er. "Pabt administrations of the government gov-ernment have seldom had more than one great question to deal with "'For a long period It was the question ques-tion of slavery. "Latterly it has beon the question of trusts and their regulation. "In the nost four years there are fronting us the supremely vital issues of monetary affairs, tariff, transportation, transpor-tation, including the Panama canal; commerce and labor, "Which of the three men running for the office of president is best qualified to deal with these questians think or it! "If changes are to he made, should tliev not be made with infinite caution? cau-tion? Behind the Constitution. "The constitution has been well tried and lias, not been found wanting. want-ing. "Who Js it that wants 'Taft dismissed?' dis-missed?' . Is it simply to open the place for one who is a candidate for the presidency? "Is it the employers of labor and the builders of prosperity who urge this car. use? "Can those who pay little or no taxes be the best Judges of what is for the country's good. "Not for one moment will Mr. Taft leave things as they are in the banking, bank-ing, tnriff anj trust laws when he can clearly better them In the light of experience ex-perience and with the assistance of the best men he can find to hcli liiin. The shriveling of work and wages by the tariff reductions directed by Baltimore will bring up some new questions in these days of unrest of labor that will bo troublln?, such as: "Can the work people and the'r families go back contentedly to the level of living of the work people of fifty years ago, before the tariff created cre-ated the present wage living? "How shall th necess'ties of idle workmen and their families bo met when the scarcity of work comes from a shiunken tariff? "Will America ever be obliged to enact a poor rate tax as in foreign countries, to lake care of the unemployed? unem-ployed? "It would seem as if we wore head-lug" head-lug" In that direction. "1 am convinced that a properly adjusted ad-justed tariff to lm- present wages and enable the working man to live properly to present comfort. 13 the only certain foundation of business prosperity and of contented home life in tho United States. "I et everybody hang out at once an American flag with Taft and Sherman Sher-man on IL" oo |